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Indian refiners are seeking crude oil purchases for delivery in November. Due to the sanctions bill signed by the United States last week, India may reduce its crude oil purchases from Russia.As the world's third-largest crude oil buyer, India has imported more than half of its total imports from Russia.

Renowned trader Killa updated his views on the recent rapid surge of Bitcoin, stating that the next target for Bitcoin could reach the $88,000 range; however, if it quickly falls below $80,000, it may test the low of $70,000. Based on volume analysis, this scenario is currently unlikely.Killa, a quantitative trader focused on BTC, predicted the peak of this bull market in May 2025 and has over 200,000 followers on platform X. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688 and switched to long during the market-wide decline on June 5.

Indian Trade Minister Piyush Goyal stated that India is studying the specific details of the tariffs imposed by the United States on Russian oil buyers. Previously, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing the president to impose punitive tariffs of up to 100% on India and other countries.

Recently, the market has reported that Apple is developing an enterprise-level AI server, possibly equipped with 2 to 4 unreleased M8 Ultra processors. The target customers include AI developers, large enterprises, and government agencies, primarily for AI inference. This edge data center may utilize NVLink. Both Apple and NVIDIA have not responded.The supply chain believes that Apple has entered this related business because the Mac series is widely used as personal AI workstations, with Mac revenue growing nearly 30% in the last quarter. Apple is purchasing a large number of NVIDIA chips and Google TPUs for its own AI data center and is rumored to be collaborating with Broadcom to develop its own AI chips. Qualcomm's Dragonfly product line includes a complete cabinet solution for edge AI inference.There are reports that Xiaomi is laying out an edge AI cabinet route, having previously announced a personalized AI workstation concept product called AI Cube, which internally features three self-developed chips: Xuan Ring O3, O100, and D100. The supply chain has also indicated that TSMC plays a key role in advanced processes or advanced packaging.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang once again refuted claims that artificial intelligence could lead to the end of the world, stating that the possibility of AI destroying the world before 2030 is zero. He emphasized that the industry should accelerate its development while ensuring product safety.

On September 18, the Central Bank of Russia released a draft proposal, intending to measure related exposures through ratios N31 and N32, based on the own funds of individual credit institutions and the consolidated capital of banking groups. The scope includes direct investments, derivatives linked to the prices of crypto assets, as well as loans, bonds, and repurchase agreements whose settlement or value depends on crypto assets.Client custody assets for which the digital custodial institution within the bank or group bears the losses will be included, while assets that do not bear losses will not be included but will still be subject to a 50% risk weight. Own accounts and client positions for which the bank bears responsibility will be subject to a 1250% risk weight. The draft is planned to be officially released in the fourth quarter of 2026, taking effect 10 days after publication, with banks expected to report N31 and N32 values starting from January 2027.

According to Axios, U.S. President Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky in New York on Tuesday, as the U.S. is working to reach a de-escalation agreement regarding the Russia-Ukraine situation.

Federal Reserve's Kashkari stated that the Fed's mission is to bring the inflation rate back to the 2% target. Inflation remains too high and is not solely due to oil price factors.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Blue Macellari, the head of digital assets at asset management giant T. Rowe Price, stated in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine that Bitcoin has now become the central topic of discussion regarding currency devaluation. She pointed out that bond vigilantes are making a comeback, U.S. Treasury financing is shifting from foreign buyers to domestic buyers, and the debt situations in Japan and Italy are not comparable to the U.S. buyer base.Macellari has 20 years of experience in emerging market sovereign debt and distressed debt investment, and later was responsible for establishing T. Rowe Price's digital asset business. In the interview, she reviewed the evolution of internal discussions on digital assets within the institution, the considerations for launching actively managed multi-token ETFs, and discussed the trends of asset management tokenization and automation, as well as the liquidity fragmentation risks brought by 24/7 trading.Additionally, Macellari assessed whether the demand for stablecoins under the GENIUS Act represents a substantive change or is merely wishful thinking, and she believes that devaluation trading has indeed driven institutional allocation to Bitcoin. She also stated that volatility can serve as a portfolio tool, and there are significant generational differences in Bitcoin allocation.

According to Bitcoin News, after Strive's Bitcoin holdings surpassed 25,000 last week, its CEO Matt Cole posted an orange dot image on Sunday with the caption "Accelerate."The post suggests that Strive may announce another large Bitcoin purchase tomorrow.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that the Bitcoin 30-day compression indicator has risen to an extreme range of 93.9%, marking the fourth occurrence of a similar situation since the current bear market phase.Over the past 20 days, the Bitcoin price has continuously tested the annual moving average line but has failed to establish a solid position, indicating that volatility compression is intensifying near key resistance levels, and a directional choice may be faced in the short term.

According to Cointelegraph, renowned gold bull and economist Peter Schiff stated that the announcement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding tokenized stocks could be bearish for Bitcoin. He believes that tokenized securities can offer similar convenience to Bitcoin while having a more reliable underlying asset value, which may weaken Bitcoin's appeal.

Samsung Electronics hired former Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Lee Hee-kun, for its IR team as an executive last month. Lee Hee-kun has held positions such as Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division and Director of the Capital Market Policy Division, responsible for foreign exchange systems and overseas investment responses. In April this year, he participated in the work of including South Korea in the World Government Bond Index and received special recognition. He is expected to be responsible for responding to overseas investors and the global capital market.SK Hynix hired former Director of the Strategic Economic Division of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Jeong Yu-jin, as the Vice President under the Communications Division last month. Jeong Yu-jin has served as the Director of the Climate and Environment Budget Division, Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division, and Director of the Foreign Exchange Fund Division. Both companies are advancing production investments in the United States, with Samsung Electronics planning to invest $37 billion to build a foundry in Taylor, Texas, and SK Hynix planning to invest $4 billion to build an advanced packaging factory in Indiana.

According to Mlm monitoring, a screenshot shared by Garrett Jin shows that he withdrew 68,080 ZEC (worth 29.7 million dollars at the time) from Binance on December 24 last year. A few minutes earlier, the same wallet withdrew another 134,000 ZEC (58.6 million dollars). He then masked all 202,080 ZEC and later unmasked them, and currently still holds the entire amount. Based on a price of 1,580 dollars per ZEC, these holdings are now worth 320 million dollars, while their value at that time was 88.3 million dollars. Therefore, his short position of 38,000 ZEC (60 million dollars) on Hyperliquid currently shows an unrealized loss of 34.5 million dollars, which can be seen as a partial hedge against his spot holdings.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the event "Political Party with the Most Seats in the Russian Parliamentary Election" is currently the most actively traded on the prediction market Polymarket, with a cumulative fund pool size reaching 367 million dollars. The option with the highest market consensus is "United Russia (ER)", corresponding to a winning probability of approximately 75.5%.

The White House announced that Trump has signed the Russia sanctions bill, making it official law.

SpaceX stated that the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft will launch NASA's Crew-15, Crew-16, and Crew-17 missions from Florida to the International Space Station.

Sandeep Nailwal, CEO of the Polygon Foundation, stated that Polygon is preparing to deploy a permissionless burn contract that allows anyone to permanently burn 100 million POL, which accounts for approximately 83% of the 121 million tokens held by the Polygon base fee collector. The contract is currently live on the testnet and will be deployed to the mainnet after the security committee completes the final signature.The first round of burns will permanently destroy 100 million POL, after which community members can trigger burns every quarter. Polygon's documentation indicates that the base fee is determined by the network and will be burned, with Nailwal stating that each base fee will inject POL into the collector. Based on the above data, approximately 21 million POL will remain in the collector after the initial burn.This burn represents about 1% of the initial supply of 10 billion POL, and based on a total supply of approximately 10.716 billion as shown by Blockscout, it accounts for about 0.93%. The burn will not set a hard cap on POL, which will continue to be issued, with an annual issuance rate of about 2% after June 2025. Nailwal also mentioned that POL has entered deflation starting January 2026, citing data from his "ChatGPT Analyst" that Polygon's revenue in 2026 will be $24.5 million, higher than Arbitrum's $8.41 million and Near's $5.6 million.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, it predicts significant capital movements in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $71,255.42 in the event "Russian Parliamentary Election Seat Contest" targeting the "United Russia Party (ER)". Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this target is 81.99%.